Merchantmen

It is believed that the tooth filings may have functioned as a rite of initiation, in addition to serving as a discreet sign of identification for an exclusive group of merchantmen.

Also, two fishing weights were found, which offer us a glimpse of the life onboard the merchantmen of the period.

Additionally many captured or confisticated foreign civilian ships (merchantmen, fishing boats, tugboats etc.) were converted into auxiliary warships or support ships.

A stop-gap measure was instituted by fitting ramps to the front of some of the cargo ships known as Catapult Aircraft Merchantmen ( CAM ships ), equipped with a lone expendable Hurricane fighter aircraft.

Britain lost 3,238 merchantmen, a smaller fraction of her merchant marine than the enemy losses of 3,434.

Catapult Aircraft Merchantmen Aircraft ranges were constantly improving, but the Atlantic was far too large to be covered completely by land-based types.

Constitution captured three British merchantmen, which Hull ordered burned rather than risk taking them back to an American port.

Constitution escorted twelve merchantmen to Philadelphia on her return voyage, and on 24 August put in at Boston, where she received new masts, sails, and rigging.

Despite a storm which scattered the convoy, the merchantmen reached the protection of land-based air cover, causing Dönitz to call off the attack.

His subjects offer a cross-section of seventeenth-century Dutch society, ranging from the portrayal of a simple milkmaid at work, to the luxury and splendour of rich notables and merchantmen in their roomy houses.

Made up of 43 merchantmen escorted by 16 warships, it was attacked by a pack of 30 U-boats.

Numerous American merchantmen were recaptured by Experiment.

On September 21, convoy HX 72 of 42 merchantmen was attacked by a pack of four U-boats, losing eleven ships sunk and two damaged over two nights.

The merchantmen had a longer and more complex voyage because they left from London, while the packets left from Falmouth in Cornwall.

The most daring commanders, such as Kretschmer, penetrated the escort screen and attacked from within the columns of merchantmen.